D'oh! This is the one I should have pushed, fromt hat same Krugman Op-Ed:

We need to do this for the sake of our future. For this isn’t about looking backward, it’s about looking forward — because it’s about reclaiming America’s soul.

That's the key, and that's what has bugged me most about Obama's pathetic proclamations of the need to look forward, not backwards. That's what justice IS! Prosecuting crimes is premised on what happened - which is the past, but is for the purpose of a better future in the hopes that similar crimes will be deterred.

For someone as smart as Obama to espousing garbage like "look forward, not backwards" with regard to our leaders who broke our most important laws is perplexing. I just don't get it.

Nothing scary here... I was looking for a suitable video to mock the rampant pseudoscience and quackery out there in the world, which has blown way past epidemic proportions in spite of scientific advancements. But I stopped looking for videos after I found this one, 'cuz it's just too cute!

The warmongering right-wingnut chest-pounders could barely keep from beating in their own chests over Uday and Qusay Hussein. We had to kill them because they were evil monsters who tortured their own people.

Funny how silent they are in the face of videotape evidence a brother of one of our oil rich benefactors torturing his own people.

A video tape smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates shows a member of the country's royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails.

A man in a UAE police uniform is seen on the tape tying the victim's arms and legs, and later holding him down as the Sheikh pours salt on the man's wounds and then drives over him with his Mercedes SUV.

In a statement to ABC News, the UAE Ministry of the Interior said it had reviewed the tape and acknowledged the involvement of Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan, brother of the country's crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

There's all kinds of "clever" accounting tricks being used by banks to declare profitability in the first quarter of '09. There are also all kinds of "clever" accounting tricks going on with Treasury and the Fed to make the system appear more stable.

While all this might be well and good for pacifying the general public, and those not well versed in economics, it can't possibly be fooling those who really matter in this at the end of the day: our Asian creditors.

Does anyone seriously believe we can financially outsmart our Chinese and Japanese benefactors with "clever" accounting tricks?

The difference is that a drink of cold water on a hot day gives onehope that it won't be hot forever. But proclaiming you will not goafter torturors gives hope to those who may torture, and deprives hopeof those who seek justice and human dignity.

Obama, whatever his long-term motives, has just flushed his message ofhope down the toilet.

Remember this day: 4/20/09. The day Obama's message of hope died, andmarked the downward turn of the Obama presidency.